The Stanford Inn Resort, is offering guests the opportunity to grow their lunch and eat it too with two new vegan retreats – one this summer and another in the fall.

“Everything we serve at our resort is organic, plant-based, and conscientiously prepared with respect for the land,” said Jeff Stanford, owner of the resort. “We field so many questions, we felt a couple of retreats would allow guests an authentic hands-on experience.” From cooking to nutrition, effective habit-change to environmental and ethical issues, guests will learn everything they need to know to be a happier, healthier person. The luxury eco-property has its own USDA Organic certified farm that provides produce for the Resort’s award-winning plant-based Ravens Restaurant.

The vegan retreats offer guests of the Stanford Inn Resort a chance to learn how to practically and logistically be vegan, and to show how simple it can be with regard to nutrition and cooking. There seems to be a feeling that transitioning to a vegan lifestyle is difficult. Stanford Inn Resort takes the guess work out of the process, and clears the confusion.

There are two vegan retreat sessions available:

·      Thursday, July 29 – Monday, August 2

·      Thursday, September 9 – Monday, September 13

Each vegan retreat includes:

·      4-night stay

·      4 breakfasts

·      4 dinners

·      2 cooking classes

·      Nutrition/healthy living class with author/nutritionist Sid Garza-Hillman

·      Sid’s Small Steps Approach with author/nutritionist Sid Garza-Hillman

·      “Bringing it Home” talk with Jeff Stanford & Sid Garza-Hillman–how to apply what you’ve learned!

·      Complimentary book copies of: Dining at the Ravens Cookbook by Jeff & Joan Stanford and The Art of Play by Joan Stanford; Approaching the Natural by Sid Garza-Hillman

·      Raising Healthy Parents: Small Steps, Less Stress, and a Thriving Family by Sid Garza-Hillman

·      Mountain bike rental

Cost:

$2150/person + tax (single occupancy), gratuities not included

$1390/person + tax (double occupancy), gratuities not included

The Stanford Inn Resort is located at 44850 Comptche Ukiah Road, POB 487, Mendocino, CA 95460. In addition to its farm and sprawling ecological landscape, the Stanford Inn Resort also hosts the Environmental Leadership Field School, an intensive experience that mobilizes future leaders from different fields to support and enhance the environment, biodiversity, and equitable relationships.

Guests at the Resort wander freely on the grounds, where they’ll see a variety of plants including edible flowers as well as a small menagerie of rescued animals. Those seeking a variety of other experiences make their way to resorts wellness center, which offers massage in the forest, nutrition and cooking classes, creative play shops, guided hikes, and various yoga and meditation classes. The Stanford Inn Resort’s outdoor shop offers different paddling and peddling experiences and specializes in redwood outrigger custom built canoe rentals, including the Canine Cruiser series – the only canoes in the world designed specifically for dogs and people to cruise together safely in style, with a raised and padded pooch floor.